Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-06
DEATH OF OLIVER EHOYT.
Prominent and " ealthy Connecticut
 Msn and t1ighIY Eateemed.

Prominent and " eaIthy Connecticut
 Man and Highly Esteemed.
 STAMFORD, May 5.-Hon. Oliver Hoyt died this afternoon in consequence of injuries received by accident last week. By his death Stamford loses one of her most hon ored citizens. He was prominent throughout the State as well as in the town in which he was born. MT. Hoyt was several times in the last twenty years prominently talked of as the Republican candidate for Governor of Connecticut: He was man of wealth, gen. erous and public spirited, and prominent Methodist.
 MT. Hoyt has been in failing health for year or more from kidney difficulty and he recently returned home from health trip little injured. Last Thursday he presided at reception given the Rev. Mir. Buck, the new pastor of the new NJ. E. church in Stam ford, who was pastor of the St. John street church in this city few years ago. The injuries which MT. Hoyt received in the accident were a broken collar bone and an injury to the spine. Mrs. Hoyt was severely bruised and one of her wrists was broken. MT. Hoyt was not thought to be dangerously injured, but an internal hemorrhage sat in. causing his death. MT. Hoyt was born in poverty about sixty five years ago. With his brothers William and Joseph B. he was bound out to man named Scofeld to learn the tan ner's trade. When the young men finished their apprenticeship they started a tannery of their own in that district in New York known as ''The Swamp" They prospered from the first and in the course of time be- came very wealthy. They still carry on the business they established. About thirty years ago the brothers purchased a tract of land in Stamford near their birthplace and erected upon it three palatial residences. Oliver Hoyt has been more in public life than his brothers. He represented Stamford in the legislature, and after the war served two terms in the State Senate.
 In 1878 MT. Hoyt was strongly urged to accept the gubernatorial nomination, which afterwards went to Judge Andrews, but de clined. Before the convention he told a friend that the State could not do better than to elect the late Governor Hubbard for other term. From his youth MT. Hoyt has been 8 devoted and prominent member of the Methodist church. He has been super intendent of the Sunday school in Stamford for more than twenty-five years, and for a long time back he and his brother regular salary paid the pastor. A few years ago the two paid nearly the whole cost of enlarging the structure. MT. Hoyt has been for years one of the direc- tors of the Wesleyan university at Middle town, and his gifts to that institution from time to time probably amount to s150, 900. His church was only one of the directions in which Mir. Hoyt was liberal giver. He con tributed largely to the General Grant fund, paid out considerable sums during the war for the equipment and forwarding of Federal soldiers, and has always extended generous hand towards needy veterans and the families of deceased soldiers. His many charities and the rectitude of his life have made him sincerely loved by his fellow townamen and all who knew him.